Jennifer Charles
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Jennifer Charles (b. November 15, Washington, D.C.) is a singer and songwriter known for her sexy image and sultry vocals. With her partner Oren Bloedow, she is the cofounder of Elysian Fields.
While growing up, music was the one constant in Charles' life. Her mother was a singer in Washington clubs and her father had a radio show that played jazz songs. Charles studied theater; She appeared in plays and experimental theatre at places like The Studio and The Source. Despite this, music was her one true passion, so she never strayed far from that.
Upon graduating from N.Y.U.(B.A. Tisch Sch of Arts), besides acting, she supported herself with a variety of jobs such as waitressing, working as an artists model, and singing jazz and torch songs in a piano bar.
Elysian Fields were founded in 1995, and has released three albums.
Besides co-leading Elysian Fields, Jennifer also works on other projects. She and Bloedow recorded La Mar Enfortuna featuring renditions of Sephardic songs, described as "among the most accessible records issued in the Tzadik series, but it is poignant and provocative nonetheless, full smoldering passions, broken lives, shattered hearts, and a sense of migration and dislocation." [1] (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:5ekzikpabbc9~T1)
Charles has also recorded with Dan the Automator's Lovage project, and with Firewater, turning in a notable performance on "The Circus" from 1996's Get Off The Cross, We Need the Wood for the Fire.
Charles has been writing poetry and short stories since the age of nine. She has studied Classical Indian singing with her beloved teacher Gulamji. Charles also speaks Spanish and loves to travel, read, listen to music, playing chess, painting, as well as praciticing teaches kundalini yoga.